Leader Speak, Digital Transformation in India, as Moderator with Kaku Nakathe (President, Bank of America) and Nitin Mishra (CTO, ONDC), at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2023, Hyderabad, India.
Corporate Keynote, Scientific force driving successful digital transformations, CIO Klub, 2021.
Created a Retail Technology Consoritum in 2022, to engage with Retail tech leaders and firms to engage collaboratively on technology evolution and applications. The consortium included Flipkart, OYO, Snapdeal, Croma, Fabindia, Unilever, P&G, Patanjali, StarQuick, Nykaa, Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), Kotak Mahindra Bank, amongst others.
Panel Discussion on Technology in Retail: Open vs Closed Model, 2022, With Mr. Thampy Koshy (ONDC) and Professor Sriram Narayanan (Michigan St. University).
Panel Discussion: Technology for Healthcare in India: The way forward, 2022, with Professor Ritu Agarwal (John Hopkins University) and Girish Krishnamurthy.
Jury for the Leader’s Category in the Women In Tech Awards, 2024, Nasscom
Distinguished Guest of Honour during the special session on the theme “Technology Resilience: AI: Separating Hype from Reality” at the MMA Chennai Annual Convention 2025 organized by the Madras Management Association (MMA) on 12th February, 2025.
Corporate Talk on PURPOSE for Digital Transformation, at JK Tyre & Industries Ltd.’s Centre for Excellence on Data and AI. New Delhi, Dec, 2024.
Keynote speech on Decision Strategies for Creating Cloud Architectures at ETCIO Cloud Summit, 3-Dec 2021.
New 18
ABP News
News paper articles
CNBC Awaaz
Book Coverage and Interviews
GovernanceNow: Ever wondered about the why of Digital Transformation? https://www.governancenow.com/news/books-ideas/ever-wondered-about-the-why-ofdigital-transformation
MoneyControl, Interview on the Book Purpose.
Why IIMA Professor Pankaj Setia offers Rs 5 crore to Rs 10 crore to students as a thought experiment
Moneycontrol.com
Video coverage of views on Retail Technology Survey Research, in news reports on News18, and ABP Live.
Coverage of views on eCommerce, in various news dailies:
The Times of India, The Economic Times, Indian Express, The Free Press Journal, The Week, Telangana Today, Career 360, Top Info World, The Hindu Businessline
One-on-one Interview on CNBC Awaaz, on changing dynamics in eCommerce.
Quoted in: 3 tough decisions for IT leaders to achieve a successful digital transformation, CIO.com 2023. https://www.cio.com/article/644494/3-tough-decisions-for-it-leaders-to-achieve-a-successfuldigital-transformation.html
Setia, P. (2022) Digital Channels and Customer Loyalty. Business World, Marketing Whitebook 2021-22
Quoted in major national dailies, such as Economic Times, Indian Express, Financial Express, Telegraph India, Moneycontrol, and others, on IIMA’s alliance with Flipkart, Snapdeal, and others. Coverage happened in December 2021 and March 2022.
Leading Research on Digitalization: The Centre for Digital Transformation, Ideas from IIMA, February 2022 https://facultynewsletter.iima.ac.in/instinifaculty/Leading-Research-on-Digitalisation:-The-Centre-for-Digital-Transformation.html
Quoted by Business Today in the article on “Data Privacy Day: How Indian firms can prepare in this privacy age”. 28-Jan-22
Research Summary: Leveraging digital technologies: How information quality leads to localized capabilities and customer service performance (DQINDIA Article) 8-Jun-2
Opinion Editorial, India needs to find its digital dharma, Nov 1, 2021, Forbes, India
Opinion Editorial, How To Digitize India?, June 15, 2021, Outlook India.
Impact of New Education Policy on Artificial Intelligence, in Analytics India Magazine. 6th August 2020. https://analyticsindiamag.com/how-will-the-new-education-policy-make-indiaai-ready/
Research Summary, Digitization of customer service processes: How firms may build advanced capabilities for superior performance Ideas from IIMA Series, August 2020
Data systems aid hospitals, agencies, and patients, by Laurie Whalen. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 22 February 2009.
Opinion Editorial, India needs to find its digital dharma, Nov 1, 2021, Forbes, India
Opinion Editorial, How To Digitize India?, June 15, 2021, Outlook India.
Impact of New Education Policy on Artificial Intelligence, in Analytics India Magazine. 6th August 2020. https://analyticsindiamag.com/how-will-the-new-education-policy-make-indiaai-ready/
Research Summary, Digitization of customer service processes: How firms may build advanced capabilities for superior performance Ideas from IIMA Series, August 2020
Data systems aid hospitals, agencies, and patients, by Laurie Whalen. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 22 February 2009.